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Members of an unofficial Republican-led committee on government oversight spent Thursday listening to Oregonians tell them to end a walkout.

Unofficial GOP-run oversight committee packed by Oregonians telling Republicans to end walkout

Republicans said they wanted the committee to hold government agencies accountable.

A man with a brown beard, black glasses and a white checkered shirt sitting in a chair in front of a microphone. He is waving his hand in front of him and looking into the distance on the left.

Director Michael Black resigns from Ashland Parks & Rec Department

Ashland Parks and Recreation Director Michael Black announced his resignation this week. Black is leaving the city after nine years that included accomplishments and some controversies.

The Assembly floor at the state Capitol on June 1, 2023.

California Legislature beats deadline on key bills

Today’s the deadline for bills to pass their first house in the California Legislature.

President Biden gives an address on the bipartisan deal to avert a national default.

Biden signs bipartisan deal to avert debt default

The president's signature came hours after he outlined the economic stakes that leaders faced and declared that a crisis had been averted.

In this handout image supplied by the European Space Agency on July 16, 2008, the Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on Mars, is pictured from ESA's Mars Express.

Here is the first livestream from Mars — a rare, almost real-time look into space

On Friday afternoon, spectators had a chance to see the most current images of Mars possible — which take 3 to 22 minutes to reach Earth — courtesy of the European Space Agency.

Teresa Huang is a member of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. She organized a special K-Pop day at the picketline outside Universal Studios this week.

Hollywood writers still going strong, a month after strike began

Members of the Writers Guild of America continue to strike against the major Hollywood studios, pushing for higher pay, more residuals and regulations on AI, among other things.

A Utah school district has removed the Bible from some schools' shelves

After a parent's complaint, a school district in Utah banned the Bible from middle and elementary schools for containing "vulgarity or violence" inappropriate for the age group.

Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho was always searching for new timbres of instrumental sound.

Kaija Saariaho, the composer who explored color and light, has died at age 70

Saariaho, who battled a male-dominated educational system in her native Finland, forged a strong and singular voice in contemporary music.

YouTube announced on June 2 that it will no longer take down video that make false claims about the legitimacy of U.S. elections.

YouTube will no longer take down false claims about U.S. elections

The Google-owned video platform's reversal comes as former President Donald Trump continues to baselessly claim the 2020 election was stolen

A drone shot of rescuers work at the site of passenger trains accident, in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, on Saturday.

More than 280 people are dead and 900 injured after 2 trains derail in India

Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, one of the country's deadliest rail crashes in decades.

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